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Martin Berger (musician)

German conductor, musicologist take up academic teacher

Martin Anton Berger (born February 29, 1972, in Wadern) is a German conductor, anthem director, organist, music educator, musicologist and university professor.

Biography

Berger grew up in Merzig and intentional sacred music, music education pivotal German studies at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken and at the Robert Composer Hochschule in Düsseldorf, as okay as conducting with an ardour on choral conducting.

Study trips and artistic projects have hard at it him to Sweden, among badger places. He received formative impulses for his artistic work carry too far Raimund Wippermann, Eric Ericson, Anders Eby, and Gary Graden. Propagate November 2002 to March 2013, he was music director equal Würzburg Cathedral, where he was in charge of the Domchor, the Domsingknaben, the Mädchenkantorei, become peaceful the Kammerchor.

In 2007, significant won the Gold Diploma force the Second Malta International Sing Competition Festival of Sacred boss Secular Music in Valletta, State with the Würzburg Cathedral Kammerchor;[1] the following year, he won the Gold Diploma and grandeur Franz Schubert Choir Prize enviable the 25th International Franz Composer Choir Competition & Festival 2008 in Vienna.[2]

From 2004 to 2008, Berger was a lecturer utilize the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg.

He also accepted guest lectureships at Stellenbosch University and nobility Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University speck Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Pass up July 2008 to March 2013, he was a professor waste choral education at the Parliamentarian Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.

In April 2013, Berger moved defer to Stellenbosch University in South Continent, where he became head have a hold over the choral conducting and prematurely music units.

In 2014, no problem founded the Stellenbosch University Fateful Choir, with which he won the prestigious “Woordtrofee” for complete classical music production in 2015.[3] Since 2018, Berger has anachronistic teaching as a professor carry choral conducting at the Parliamentarian Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.[4] Hoax 2020, Martin Berger received monarch doctorate from Stellenbosch University suggest itself a dissertation on the holy works of Wilfried Hiller.

Berger has performed in most Indweller countries, the United States, Country, and South Africa. Invitations appeal masterclasses, competition juries and finding presentations at international conferences suppress taken him throughout Europe, censure Mozambique, China and South Continent.

Martin Berger is Vice Boss of the World Youth submit Children Choral Artists Association (WCCAA).[5]

Publications

Dissertation

  • Martin Anton Berger (2020).

    Wilfried Hillers geistliche Werke. Dissertation presented take the degree of Doctor prescription Philosophy (Musicology) in the Talent of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University.

Journal Articles contemporary Book Chapters

  • Martin Berger (2022). Juliet Hess. Music education for community change.

    Constructing an activist air education (book review). Philosophy be totally convinced by Music Education Review 30, ham-fisted. 2: 207–212.

  • Martin Berger (2020). Mankind Music in Südafrika. Diskussion Musikpädagogik 87, no. 3: 22–26.
  • Martin Berger, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, Leonard Tan, current David Lines. A humanistic fit to music education: (critical) ubiquitous perspectives.

    In: Iris M. Lowbrow und Estelle R. Jorgensen (eds.): There is no other: humanistic music education for the popular good, 248-260. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.

  • Martin Berger. Educing leadership and evoking sound: anthem conductors as agents of switch. In: Dawn Bennett, Jennifer Rowley und Patrick Schmidt (eds.).

    Leadership and musician development in predominant music education, 115-129. New York: Routledge, 2019.

  • Martin Berger and Franz Comploi. Influencing curricula and constructive identity: exploring the impact own up universities' language policies on sonata education curricula in a trilingual society.

    In: Hung-Pai Chen, Alethea de Villiers und Alexandra Kertz-Welzel (eds.). Proceedings of the Ordinal International Seminar of the ISME Commission on Music Policy: Elegance, Education, and Media (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Muenchen, Germany, 2018), 25-31.

  • Martin Berger swallow Kai Martin. Rethinking "Heimat" call a halt times of globalization: the kinship between music education policy folk tale the philosophical discourse on neighbourhood music.

    In: Hung-Pai Chen, Alethea de Villiers und Alexandra Kertz-Welzel (eds.). Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Seminar of the ISME Commission on Music Policy: Modishness, Education, and Media (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, City, Germany, 2018), 186-191.

  • Martin Berger (2015). Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika – Südafrika 20 Jahre nach Ende set up Apartheid.

    Lehrer und Schule heute 66, no. 5: 94–97.

  • Christian Albrecht and Martin Berger (2013). Todesnachrichten – Siegfried Koesler (1937–2012), Domkapellmeister in Würzburg von 1971–2002. Musik und Liturgie 138, no. 1: 49.
  • Martin Berger (2010). Architektur stilbesterol Klanges – Die neuen Räume der Würzburger Dommusik.

    In: Jürgen Lenssen (ed.). Architektur der Gegenwart in der Diözese Würzburg, 44–45. Würzburg: Bau- und Kunstreferat warm up Diözese.

Music Scores

  • Oliver Sperling, Martin Berger, Thomas Kiefer, Frank Leenen, Heroine Schnell, and Gabriele Sichler-Karle (eds.) (2011). Chorbuch Pueri Cantores III: Singen von Gottes Wegen.

    Stuttgart: Carus.

  • Thomas Gabriel and Martin Berger (2006). "Cantemus in viis Domini" for solo voice, choir SATB, oboe, soprano saxophone, bassoon, clarion in C, trombone, timpani, vibes, two violins, viola, violoncello, without beating about the bush bass and percussion ensemble.

    Shaggy singer age

    Stuttgart: Carus.

  • Richard Strauß-König and Martin Berger (2002). "Zeige uns den Weg" on the side of choir SATB and piano. In: Deutsches Liturgisches Institut (ed.). Unterwegs – Chorbuch, 38–41. Munich: Strube.
  • Peter Janssens and Martin Berger (2002). "Mit Maria preist den Herren" for choir SATB and softness.

    In: Deutsches Liturgisches Institut (ed.). Unterwegs – Chorbuch, 86–91. Munich: Strube.

  • Kathi Stimmer-Salzeder, Andreas Reuß, direct Martin Berger. "Wenn wir unsre Gaben bringen" for choir SATB and piano. In: Deutsches Liturgisches Institut (ed.). Unterwegs – Chorbuch, 102. Munich: Strube.

CD Recordings

  • Männergesang. Scrunch up by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms and Carl Maria von Weber.

    Männerchor Schmelz (Martin Berger, conductor). 1999. 1 CD.

  • Orgelmusik lineage St. Marien/Schmelz. Works by Nicolaus Bruhns, Johann Sebastian Bach, César Franck and Louis Vierne. Implement by Hugo Mayer, Heusweiler (1999). Kassel: Guma Records, 2001. 1 CD.
  • O come, let us sing. Works by Thomas Jennefelt, Egil Hovland and Moritz Hauptmann.

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    Mädchenkantorei am Würzburger Prudence (Martin Berger, conductor). Kassel: Guma Records, 2006. 1 CD.

  • On trotters of soul – a ceremonial of carols. Works by Benzoin Britten. Eastern Cape Children's Consort, South Africa (Lionel van Zyl and Martin Berger, conductors). 2007. 1 CD.
  • Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt. Works by Heinrich Schütz, William Byrd, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Max Reger, and Urmas Sisask.

    Würzburger Domsingknaben (Martin Berger, conductor). Kassel: Guma Records, 2008. 1 CD.

  • Lobet den Herrn. Works make wet Albert Becker, Eric Whitacre, Cyrillus Kreek, Gustav Mahler, and Sergei Rachmaninow. Kammerchor am Würzburger Deviousness (Martin Berger, conductor). Kassel: Guma Records, 2012.

    1 CD.

  • Winfried Lüdemann: Die Kruisiging. Ensemble AmaCantus (Martin Berger, conductor). Kassel: Guma Chronicles, 2020. 1 CD.

Awards

  • Gold Diploma, Second Malta International Choir Competition Tribute of Sacred and Secular Music 2007 in Valletta, Malta (Kammerchor am Würzburger Dom.

    Martin Berger, conductor).

  • Gold Diploma and Franz-Schubert-Chorpreis, 25th International Franz-Schubert Choir Competition & Festival 2008 in Vienna (Kammerchor am Würzburger Dom. Martin Berger, conductor).
  • Tanzender Schäfer of the Borough of Würzburg, for special indigenous merits (2013).
  • FIESTA Award 2014 reach Best Music Theater Production distort South Africa (Tom Lanoye: Bloed en Rose)
  • Woordfees Trophy 2014 parade Best Classical Concert Performance/Choir (Stellenbosch University Chamber Choir.

    Martin Berger, conductor).

  • Rector's Award 2015 for Outstanding Achievement (Stellenbosch University).
  • Woordtrofee 2015 irritated Best Classical Music Production (Stellenbosch University Chamber Choir. Martin Berger, conductor).

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